I’ve only been back to art school a few times since leaving. This week I went back to one I’d not been to before, but it was familiar. The first thing you see and smell when you walk through the front door of Kingston in Surbiton is the art supplies shop. I immediately wanted to buy paper and magic markers.…
The world is f***ed. So what.
I’ve only been back to art school a few times since leaving. This week I went back to one I’d not been to before, but it was familiar. The first thing you see and smell when you walk through the front door of Kingston in Surbiton is the art supplies shop. I immediately wanted to buy paper and magic markers.…
This is a hard post to share. But one with a gift at the end, here at the end of the year. And a story I shall begin with a hard-won creative truth. To give a convincing performance, you do have to commit. There is undoubtedly a lethal extreme sports example to be found that illustrates this principle; I dunno,…
Hey, if you tuned in… thank you. I'm not super experienced at live stream things. I mean, I've been doing them all year with AY, and building out the GGShow into three rather different geographically live specials (one yet to finish being edited, from COP26) I learned the possibilities of combining live performance as a music maker and speaker with…
Listen, engage richly, hold lightly. Have I finally found something smart-arse sounding enough to share with my younger self? If your own worthy roadmap or absent plans for the future are driving you crazy, is it because you still think you are supposed to be driving everything? So stop shovelling coal into the boiler for a moment. I think…
Does the word "diversity" make your teeth itch? As far as you're concerned, is the whole idea of it some fake liberal shame tool from back before racism was fashionable in the media again? You are an irascible old thing, aren't you? Well, let's forget all that for a moment because I'd like to simply ask: Where are your…